Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
The doctorate is a degree that has been influenced by developments in society and higher education over the last decades. The international literature has widely acknowledged differences in the doctorate between disciplines as well as between national contexts. In some contexts, new types of doctoral degrees, including professional doctorates, have emerged. This piece of research is interested in...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004COM04.
This doctoral thesis aims to reconstruct, analyse and provide a historical contextualization of the TV broadcast “Un’ora per voi”, which was intended to promote the integration of Italian workers and their families in Switzerland, in the years between the early 1960’s and the late 1980’s. Within the framework of the research on the history of television, this thesis focuses on an...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM008.
Over the last decade a constantly growing prevalence of the obesity problem in industrialized nations has intensified the health and lifestyle discussion, particularly regarding the topics of nutrition and physical exercise. This elevated attention is also due to an increased awareness towards these topics by various information sources, in particular by the mass media. Whilst the market of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2006 ; 2006COM004.
The present study concentrates on what technological innovation means to the film industry, and in particular according to which logic the cinematographic industry has evolved with respect to emerging technologies, cyclically adapting and remodelling its own productive processes. Delving into the social and technological history of the main optical devices which preceded the cinematographic...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2005 ; 2005COM002.
The principal aim of the present study is the analysis of the changes in the television scheduling strategy with the migration from the analogic phase to the digital one. The digitalisation of the television signal (terrestrial, by satellite or cable) deeply changes the sector of audio-visual media taking new actors on stage and imposing the definition of new rules. Obviously, every context has...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2002 ; 2002COM001.
This research examines the temporal evolution of television broadcasting genres, focusing on a comparative analysis of these in the major European and non-European countries, with special attention to Italy. One of the principal objectives of the research is to highlight the similarities and differences between such genres, and to map out their future developments. An ulterior objective is to...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004COM003.
New perspectives of urban marketing suggest to build network strategies to improve cities attractiveness. Isolated quantitative researches cannot represent the multidimensional urban value. So this research, applied to the case of the Lugano area, use a basic qualitative factor of the urban value: stakeholders perception analysis in order to evaluate strengths and weakness, opportunities and...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2005 ; 2005COM001.
This thesis aims to discover the motivations leading a company to communicate through humour. Humour is seen as a language in order to understand where, how and when it is usefully used. After an historical and philosophical introduction (Chapter 2), whose purpose is to show the most important schools of thought which developed over the centuries (and sometimes also overlapped) to explain the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2003 ; 2003COM001.
This study moves from the consideration of the communication dynamics within the instructional design practice. With the introduction of electronic media, the design of educational environments in Higher Education has ceased to be a craftsmanship activity, and has acquired some features proper of mass production. This makes communication a more and more critical issue in design. The original goal...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004COM002.
The scope of the research is to analyse how the information and communication technologies can modify the training and the didactic. The main idea is to think that these technologies can effort the teaching and the learning processes, helping the development of new didactic models. The scope of the thesis is to identify the different fields in which they can give a value added in the teaching...
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